"For Sophocles' words,
"Brightly shines brass in use,
but when unused
It groweth dull in time, and mars the house,"
.... are also appropriate to the character of a man, which gets rusty and senile by not mixing in affairs but living in obscurity. For mute inglorious ease, and a sedentary life devoted to leisure, not only injure the body but also the soul: and as hidden waters overshadowed and stagnant get foul because they have no outlet, so the innate powers of unruffled lives, that neither imbibe nor pass on anything, even if they had any useful element in them once, seem to be effete and wasted."
- Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals
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